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called from Monfieur Cane) on the South with the River 
Mohegan, or Htidfons River, fo called becaufe he was 
the firft that difcovered it. 1 Some will have America to be 
an Ifland, which out of queftion muft needs be, if there be 
a Northeaft paffage found out into the South Sea; it con- 
tains 1 152400000 Acres. The difcovery of the North- 
weft paffage (which lies within the River of Canada) was 
undertaken with the help of fome Proteftant Frenchmen, 
which left Canada and retired to Bojion about the year 1669. 
The Northeaft people of America i.e. New England, &c. 
are judged to be Tartars called Samoades, being alike in 
complexion, fhape, habit and manners, (fee the Globe:) 
Their Language is very fignificant, ufing but few words, 
every word having a diverfe lignification, which is expreft 
by their gefture; as when they hold their head of one fide 
the word fignifieth one thing, holding their hand up when 
they pronounce it fignifieth another thing. Their Speech- 
es in their Affemblies are very gravely delivered, com- 
monly in perfect Hexamiter Verfe, with great filence and 
attention, and anfwered again ex tempore after the fame 
manner. 2 
[6] Having given you fome fhort Notes concerning the 
Country in general, I fhall now enter upon the propofed 
Difcovery of the Natural, Phyfical, and Chyrurgical Rari- 
ties; and that I may methodically deliver them unto you, 
1 Compare, as to the insulation of the tratft understood by Josselyn as New 
England, Palfrey, Hist. N. E., vol. i. pp. i, 2, and note, and the accompanying 
map. 
« 2 See the author's larger account of the natives in his Voyages, pp. 123-150. 
